Category Archive: Bolivia

Endurance Travel – A Break in Carmargo

Endurance Travel – A Break in Carmargo

Finding a Ticket Onward Our bus finally arrives in Carmargo at 2pm. After climbing off, I look around to see if there is a bus to …

 

Endurance Travel – Making it to Carmargo

Endurance Travel – Making it to Carmargo

Leaving the City Leaving the city entrance behind us we began our ascent up the first mountain. We had beaten the blockades and now had a …

 

YWAM Tarija – An Early Childhood Centre

YWAM Tarija – An Early Childhood Centre

Here I am in Tarija, staying at the YWAM base here. This base is not like many of the bases of YWAM in that it …

 

Endurance Travel – The Final Leg To Sucre

Endurance Travel – The Final Leg To Sucre

Confusion It is 7.45pm and I am on the bus and moving. It is all quite strange really. People without tickets were clamouring to get aboard …

 

Endurance Travel – Beating the Blockades

Endurance Travel – Beating the Blockades

Well, I have just arrived in Sucre this morning. By all rights I should have still been in Tarija. The transit strikes were extended another …

 

Salar de Uyuni – A 3 Day Tour

Salar de Uyuni – A 3 Day Tour

I have just arrived in Chile after a three day tour of the Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt lake in the earth. The …

 

Salar de Uyuni – Day Three (3)

Salar de Uyuni – Day Three (3)

At five in the morning we had packed our jeep and were on the trail, wrapped up in multiple jumpers and with gloves and beanies …

 

Salar de Uyuni – Day One (1)

Salar de Uyuni – Day One (1)

We started from Uyuni township in Bolivia and the first day was spent on the salt lake. By the end of the day we had …

 

Salar de Uyuni – Day Two (2)

Salar de Uyuni – Day Two (2)

The second day took us into wild places in the Andean mountains, reaching altitudes of up to 5000 meters in our Toyota Landcruiser 4wd where …

 

Sucre by Photos

Sucre by Photos

Riding down the main street of Sucre on a motorbike. Sun setting through the colonades of the lookout plaza. Bolivian mother carries her child in the common …